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What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid?

paulproteus writes "I'm a Debian developer and a part-time contributor to a few smaller projects. I do a lot of free software-y and open source-y things. Sometimes, though, I don't do them. I figure some other Slashdotters might have similar hang-ups — we contribute to a project, but there are parts that we really dread thinking about. So I wrote a post about having these hang-ups, and I made a place on the web to share how others can help your project. What are the parts that, in your projects, you would be relieved if someone else looked at for you?"

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  1. Re:One thing I don't do is troublesome licenses by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What does "pro-freedom" mean in this context? I'm pro-freedom, too. Freedom to wear polka-dot pants to church. The GPL protects the freedom of users, where you want a license that protects the freedom of the developer. Unless you're just trolling (hard to tell) then you're still offtopic; we're talking about what programming tasks do you avoid, not what programming projects.

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